Art - Conceptual

A WONDERFUL PRESENT FOR THE COLORING LOVER. As a lover of dolphins Kaye has endeavored to capture the essence of their beauty in this book. A rare opportunity to color in these beautiful creatures. This range of images show dolphins at play underwater, flipping...

Manifesto for a Theory of the 'New Aesthetic' - An irreverent guided tour of the 'New Aesthetic' by Curt Cloninger, The Missing Factory - John Roberts considers why work remains absent from film and culture more generally, Barbara Says - Industry Does it Faster...

This publication introduces a never-before-exhibited series of works by the late British artist John Latham (1921-2006). Accompanying a solo exhibition at Karsten Schubert, London, the group of work features spray painted and twisted canvas on wooden stretchers. The works challenge the conventional relationship between...

The work of renowned painter and sculptor Gary Hume is characterized by his invigorating use of radiant panes of glossy colour. In his first major monograph the artist's rich, affecting work is granted new life in over 200 full-colour illustrations. Using imagery as diverse...

Does art have a sex? A study of Sarah Lucas's famous assemblage of objects that suggest male and female body parts.Amna Malik opens her study of Sarah Lucas's Au Naturel (1994) by asking "Does art have a sex? And if so, what does it...

The official art book for the animated movie The Addams Family. Based on the famous New Yorker creations of Charles Addams, this animated action-comedy will follow the Addams family - parents Gomez and Morticia, children Wednesday and Pugsley, Uncle Fester, Grandma, Cousin It, faithful...

Discover the alt worlds of The Man in the High Castle in this exclusive collection of art. Packed with concept art, final designs, and artist commentary plus previously unseen storyboards. The Man in the High Castle is the hit Amazon series, inspired by Philip...

A New York Times Book Review 2019 holiday gift guide pickOne of Time Magazine's best photo book of 2019 For more than 50 years, American conceptualist Mel Bochner (born 1940) has been shaping dialogs between art and language through exhibition concepts, paintings and sculptures...

The "Mystical Southwest" is a representation of fine art mixed media paintings created in unison by two internationally recognized artists. All paintings featured in this tour exhibition are collaborated works of art. The Mystical South West embodies through visual dialogues the beauty of this...

No One Thing is the Root of All AnythingPhases and Performance of the Imminent$15.00 - $20.00by Chelsea CoonChelsea Coon's first publication No One Thing is the Root of All Anything: Phases and Performance of the Imminent describes the artist's methodological approaches in the spatial...

No Man's Land is a beguiling collection of sepia-toned natural landscapes pulled from security camera feeds. Marcus DeSieno has sifted through hours of footage from various CCTV cameras to create images that remind us that we are never truly alone.Author: Desieno MarcusISBN-10: 1942084463ISBN-13: 9781942084464Publisher:...

"Renee Gladman has always struck me as being a dreamer--she writes that way and the dreaming seems to construct the architecture of the world unfolding before our reading eyes."--Eileen MylesA book of ink drawings that regards language as an exposed nervous system, uncovering the...

Paul Chan's monumental projection Sade for Sade's Sake takes the work of the notorious pornographer and philosopher, the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), as a departure point for a nearly six-hour-long rhythmic study of bodily ecstasy and bodily repetition. Chan brilliantly renders the foremost quality...

Never before-seen artwork from the award-winning science-fiction and fantasy artist Stephan Martiniere!Following his previous books, Quantum Dreams and Quantumscapes, Velocity is a stunning new visionary collection of sci-fi book cover paintings, commercial and film art, video game designs, and never before-seen artwork from the...

"Everett's talent is multifaceted, sparked by a satiric brilliance that could place him alongside Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison."--Publishers Weekly "I think Percival Everett is a genius. . . . He's a brilliant writer and so damn smart I envy him."--Terry McMillan Chris Abani...

Upon returning to the UK after studying in the US, the Irish-born artist Michael Craig-Martin (born 1941) became a key figure in British conceptual art and an influential educator, linked in particular to the generation of Young British Artists, including Damien Hirst and Gary...

British Conceptual artist John Stezaker (b. 1949) is known for his distinctive, often deceptively simple, collages. He has been making art since the 1970s, but achieved prominence relatively recently. In 2011, he had a retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, and, in 2012, he...

"Elegantly designed...heady brilliance...perfectly presented." - The Austin ChronicleSeven Drinks isn't like other bar books before it. Instead of focusing on histories, ingredients, chemistry, and drink proportions, this little handbook focusses on the often-overlooked dimension that gives life to a bar and the drinks it...

Author: Michelle HowardISBN-10: 3110679817ISBN-13: 9783110679816Publisher: de GruyterLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/23/2020Pages: 152Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.50d

Go behind the scenes of Altered Carbon in this exclusive collection of art. Packed with concept art, final designs, and artist commentary plus previously unseen storyboards. Awaken into the cyberpunk world of Skydance's Altered Carbon. Stacks - implanted chips that store human consciousness -...

A singularly authoritative--yet also anti-authoritative--gathering of a life's work in art, education and activism.For more than half a century, the artist Luis Camnitzer has been concerned with the same things. The essays gathered in this book outline a radically democratic and frequently provocative vision...

L'image vol e, published for an exhibition curated by Thomas Demand, explores the way we all rely on preexisting models, and how artists have always referred to existing imagery to make their own. Questioning the boundaries between originality, conceptual inventiveness and the culture of...

Polish-born, London-based Goshka Macuga (born 1967) adopts the roles of an artist, curator, collector, researcher and exhibition designer, working across a variety of media to explore how and why we remember both cultural and personal events. She particularly focuses on how we build our...

A comprehensive view of Dennis Oppenheim's radical art practices during this explosive five-year period.Dennis Oppenheim was a pioneer in the fields of earthworks, conceptual art, body art, and performance. This monograph follows the studio practice, public performance works, and gallery and museum shows that...

This catalog collects the most iconic and representative political works of Spanish conceptual artist Santiago Sierra (born 1966) from the 1990s to the present, with documents regarding his many performances enacted around the world.Author: Santiago Sierra, Lutz HenkeISBN-10: 8836636799ISBN-13: 9788836636792Publisher: Silvana EditorialeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/26/2017Pages:...

An unusual hybrid between a solo exhibition and a group show, Urs Fisher: False Friends places the oeuvre of Swiss artist Urs Fischer (born 1973) in conversation with the work of a selection of his peers: Pawel Althamer, Maurizio Cattelan, Peter Fischli and David...

Images of Buddhist icons that fit the palm of your hand with soothing words that bring acceptance and relieve suffering. This 96-page handy pocket-sized hardcover book is a collection of passages from Buddhist scripture, Japanese prayers and poetry concerning human affliction and suffering written...

Throughout the 1980s and early '90s, Kim Gordon--widely known as a founding member of the influential band Sonic Youth--produced a series of writings on art and music. Ranging from neo-Conceptual artworks to broader forms of cultural criticism, these rare texts are brought together in...

This abundantly illustrated two-volume publication presents the photographic documentation of Frigate and Houseboat, two pirate-themed works by Paul McCarthy and his son Damon McCarthy, alongside a new text by John C. Welchman analyzing the McCarthys' work. Taking the lawlessness of piracy as a departure...

This book documents a recent collaborative exhibition of Per Kirkeby (born 1938) and Lawrence Weiner (born 1942). Kirkeby presented two new brick stone sculptures built in situ at the gallery space, while Weiner exhibited new and recent text pieces mounted on the gallery walls...

Although he is regarded as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century for his artists' books, prints and sculptures often made with found materials, Dieter Roth (1930-1998) always thought of himself mainly as a writer, viewing his artistic work as a...

This stunning and comprehensive book presents acclaimed artist William Forsythe, whose work is at the intersection of performance, sculpture, and installation. Since the 1990s, parallel to his stage productions, Forsythe has developed a body of work he calls "Choreographic Objects". These experimental, interactive works...

When his 24-hour film The Clock was awarded the Golden Lion at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011, Christian Marclay's hour had struck. Yet as an artist, performer and pioneer of turntablism, the Swiss-American Christian Marclay (born 1955) had already been famous for his...

This publication presents a broad selection of work by English artist Josephine Pryde (born 1967), from 1990 to 2014. In photography, sculpture and writing, the artist offers incisive and often ironic commentary on the values, hierarchies and economies attending contemporary art.Author: Josephine PrydeISBN-10: 3037644117ISBN-13:...

Humankind has imagined and depicted fantastical creatures since the formation of the first societies. Beasts such as the Chimera, the Golem, the Minotaur and Galatea could be said to be culturally symptomatic. Today, in the twenty-first century, we witness the emergence of a new...

How photography came to thrive in the postwar era, from pop to conceptualismThis volume explores how and why the second half of the 20th century proved such a fruitful moment for the ascendance of photography. It investigates pop art, conceptual art and emerging photo-based...

Creative and critical responses to capitalism in the Middle East, by celebrated conceptualist Hassan Sharif Emirati conceptual artist Hassan Sharif (1951-2016) examined the socioeconomic effects of global capitalism in sculpture, painting, writing, performance and political caricature. This volume documents Sharif's work with archival material...

Throughout the years I have studied different subject matters, mediums and techniques to really find the best way to use art. And by accident, I found the current style that I'm best known for today. Author: Madelyn JanelleISBN-10: 0997885238ISBN-13: 9780997885231Publisher: Madelyn JanelleLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/16/2020Pages:...

Charting the glorious decade that spans Halo: Combat Evolved to Halo: Reach, Halo: The Great Journey is a lavish and spectacular review of ten years of groundbreaking game art brought together in one place as never before. Halo: The Great Journey is the ultimate...

Discover your visual representation of the universe! A mandala is a spiritual and ritual symbol in Asian cultures. It can be understood in two different ways: externally as a visual representation of the universe or internally as a guide for several practices, including meditation....

Part art history essay, part experimental fiction, part theoretical manifesto on the politics of equivalence, Helicography examines questions of scale in relation to Robert Smithson's iconic 1970 artwork Spiral Jetty. In an essay and film made to accompany the earthwork, Smithson invites us to...

This portfolio of works produced between 1990 and 2021 is the companion to the book Research Art by Michael Betancourt. It is a full color chronological documentation of movies, statics and social installations. This concise summary reveals a diverse practice addressing how media history,...

On the physical and digital possibilities of public space in a world transformed by COVID-19Featuring the works of nearly 40 artists, designers and writers, this publication surveys the formation of community and perceptions of the public amid COVID-19, exploring new communal digital spaces produced...

Critical and theoretical essays by a long-time participant in the Art & Language movement.These essays by art historian and critic Charles Harrison are based on the premise that making art and talking about art are related enterprises. They are written from the point of...

Uncover Your Inner Artist with Un-Color-It Activity Books for Adults & TeensAre you tired of traditional coloring books where you have to stay within the lines? Look no further than the "Un-Color-It Activity Books for Adults & Teens(TM)" series by bestselling author Kat Mariaca....

On Baldessari's final painting series, a perfect encapsulation of his lifelong exploration of the chasms between words and thingsThe 30 paintings on canvas by John Baldessari (1931-2020) compiled here explore the gaps in meaning between word and image, foreground and background, photography and painting,...

The first book devoted solely to Bruce Nauman's corridors and other architectural installations, Bruce Nauman: Spatial Encounters deftly explores the significance of these works in the development of his singular art practice, examining them in the context of the period and in relation to...

What do Russell Simmons, Shepard Fairey, and Jay-Z, have in common, besides being some of the most respected influential people in the world? They felt the need to come together to represent their art for the sake of the book, "The Art Album." When...

Sturtevant has been repeating the works of her contemporaries since 1964, using some of the most iconic artworks of her generation as a source and catalyst to explore originality and authorship. Beginning with her versions of works by Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol, Sturtevant...

Duct Tape Crafts: 48 Duct Tape Projects Duct Tape Crafts are certainly one of the newest, trendiest crafts to be made. Unlike most DIY projects, duct tape crafts are very durable, fashionable, and practical. We've created a book of our favorite 48 Duct Tape...